A Humanism in the Renaissance

In many ways, it's a rediscovery of classic antiquity. After i meat, people weren'te plato or aristotle or herodotus before. But is pretty few and far between. And at best, by enlarge, most people are just reading these great authors from antiquity in proof texts from other sources. Ah, so you get a galic, francesca petrarch is oftentimes called the father of the renaissance. He gets quite excited about it, so much so that he starts writing letters to cicero and homer and imean. From 20 first century chronological snobbish perspective, very strange letters, but nois twhis kind of intellectual exercise.